单词 | dryster |
释义 | drystern. A workman or woman employed in drying something. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > making dry > one who dryster14.. dryerman1880 dryer?1881 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 692 Nomina artificium mulierum..Hec siccatrix, a dryster. 1483 Cath. Angl. 109 A Dryster, dissicator, -trix. 1662 J. Lamont Diary 15 Jan. (1830) 143 Old Robert Baill being dryster that day, and William Lundy..measter of the mille. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Dry Dryster, 1. The person who has the charge of turning and drying the grain in a kiln. 2. One whose business is to dry cloth at a bleach-field. 1894 H. Speight Nidderdale & Garden of Nidd 384 (note) Throwsters and drysters were potters' craftsmen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.14.. |
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